Baking compound.



DANIEL c. HERB, or SALINEVILLE, omo.

BAKING comrounn.

No Drawing.

To all whom it may concern? Be it known that I, DANIEL G. Hana, a citizen of the United States of America, and

resident of Salineville, county of Columbiana, and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Baking Compounds, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an artificial product or compound intended to be used in the preparation of material for culinary or baking purposes. 7 The object of the invention is to provide, in a form convenient for handling or shipping and which -will not deteriorate in quality with age or with changes of temperature, a compound or substancefor use incooking, and particularly in baking, which shall embody all, or most, of the desirable and necessary elements of a natural egg.

- A further object is to produce a compound of the character mentioned which shall possess certain advantages over the eggs for which they are substituted in baking recipes, such, for instance, as contributing to the production of a larger yield of the baked product and the production of a baked prod-' uct which retains moisture for an increased period. And a further object of the inventlon is to produce an inexpensive compound, in a form convenient for immediate use and adapted to resist deteriorationboth in quantity and quality for an unlimited time, which may either partially or wholly displace the necessity for the use of eggs in baking recipes.

. The invention consists in the combination, in the form of a dry powder, of certain substances or elements 111 proper proportions,

which, when mixed with milk and water in certain proportions, contains practically the 1 same properties as the egg of a fowl.

The com ound consists of the following elements: our, corn starch, sugar, chlorid of sodium, and hydro en potassium tartarate, the latter common y known as cream of tartar. These elements or ingredients are compounded in substantially the following proportions, measured by weight:

Elouii- 28.5 per cent. Corn starch 28.5 per cent.

Specification of Letters Patent.

the product for its intended purpose.

'stitute for eggs in the recipe.

Patented Jan. 3, 1911.

Applicationfiled December 23, 1909 Serial No. 534,720.

Sugar 28.5 per cent. Chlorid of sodium 7. 25 percent. Hydrogen potassium tartarate 7. 25percent.;

or, in other words, equal weights of flour, corn starch and sugar are mixed with equal weights of chlorid of sodium and cream of tartar, the weight of each of the two last named lngredients being about one-fourth that of each of the three first named ingredients.

When the above-named ingredients have been thoroughly mixed in substantially the proportions stated, the resultant product. constitutes my baking compound. Varia-- tions in the proportions above specified may be made within a limited range without materially changing or affecting the eificacy of 7 0- While the compound may be made to wholly dispense with the use of eggs in a given recipe, I have found by experiment that in a recipe calling for alarge number of eggs the pro uct may be slightly improved by the addition of a small number of eg For instance, in a bakers recipe calling t sr fifty eggs, the productwillbe practically the same when one pound of the compound and four eggs are emplcyed as when the fifty eggs called for are use I n The compound being a comparatively cheap one to produce, it will thus be seen that the use thereof results in great economy. In using the compound, milk and water areadded in substantially the ratio of one quart each to a pound of the owder. When thoroughly mixed or diffuse the resultant solution is ready for immediate use as a sub- As above stated, however, the addition of eggs in the ratio of four to a pound of the compound effects a slight improvement in the quality of the product, and, in fact, results in said product being equally as palatable, pure and wholesome as that produced in the ordinary manner.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-,

The herein-described com ound, consist ing of a powder composed o the following- Q 980335 named iugredients in Substantially the pro- In testiulony whereofI aflix my signature portions stated, viz.: equal weights of flour, 1n presence of two subscribing witnesses. corn-starch and sugar, and' equal weights of chlorid of sodium and cream of tartar DANIEL C. HERB;

- (hydrogen potassium tartarate), the wei ht of each of the last-named elements bemg Witnesses:

one-fourth the Weight of each of the 'first- H. R. SH-A'FF,

named elements. J. HUNT BEARD. 

